While
I love Japan, the Japanese people and Japanese arts, technology and
culture, I abhor Japan's (and Iceland's) whaling policy…

Iceland's
'scientific whaling' programme, like Japan's, is merely commercial whaling
in disguise.
Commercial whaling was banned by the International Whaling Commission
(IWC) in 1982, but a loophole allows the killing of whales for research
purposes. Iceland plans to sell the products of its 'research' to Japan,
where whale meat generates four billion yen in sales annually.